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L UNITED STATES-PATENT omet.

SAMUEL J. vAN sTAvoEEN,I oF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, AssIGNoR OF ONE-HALFTO CHARLES F. HORN, OF SAME PLACE.

oAR-AXLE-B'ox Pla-olasl-Al..

SPECIFICATION forming' partof Letters Patent No. 527,087, dated October 9, 1894.

Application inea ramm- 8`, 1394. lanni No. 499,562. (Nt model.)

.To all whom/it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL J VAN Sfr/Avo- REN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oar- AXle-Box Pedestals; and` I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

' My invention has relation to axle box pedestals of the type wherein the component parts are madre of wrought metal and riveted or otherwise secured together; and it has for its object simplicity andv economyof construction of the component parts of the pedestal whereby the same 'may be readily and economically assembled'and secured together.

embodyingmy invention, and Fig. 2 is an end view of the same.

A represents the pedestal composed of .theV

axle box; the same not beingshownin the drawings as it is well known.

The plate B is made or cut from rolled U shaped metal or channel bars having vertical sides b b and bottom b. The ways or guides C C arecomposed of strips of wrought metal each of which is shaped or formed to have parallel vertical sides c c bottom or lower ends The upper ends c2 ofthe sides c overlap the side b of the top-plate B and are provided with registering openings through which pass rivets or other fastening devices d for securing said parts together. i

In the bottom and vertical vsides of plate B are formed bolt openings g with inwardly projecting thimbles g through which pass My'invention accordingly consists of then comblnatlons, constructionsg'and arrange- 'vin Fig. V1.

the bolt for securing the pedestals to the truck upper-chord or framing. I The thimbles g may be integral with theplate B, as shown in Fig. 2, or they may be made separate therefrom and inserted inthe openings g as shown vH H are transverse bars orbrackets havin g edge flanges h cut from channel or other suit'- ably fashioned wroughtmetal bar s having rivet or bolt openings which register with like openings lin the sides c of ways orA guides O adjacent to the space D and through, which openings, rivets or other suitable fastening devices h are inserted to secure said brack-v ets lto theways or guides O for strengthening their lower ends and forproviding additionalv ends of said brackets and the top of bottom c for the passage of lower-chord or other analogousixture ofthe truck. f

The pedestal may have any suitable conformation.

If desired the bottom c instead lof being integral with the sides c c of ways O C, may be separate therefrom and made or cut from channel 0r other suit-ably shaped Wrought metal bars having edge flanges and be riveted or otherwise scoured to the lower sideof the side 'c c, as indicated by dotted lines x x.

1f desired the component parts of the pedestal instead of being riveted or analogously secured together may be Velectrically Welded together in which case all surfaces of the pedestal will befree from rivet or bolt heads.

l. A wrought metal axle-box pedestal composed of a top-plate B having bottom b and parallel sides b @separated depending ways or guides, the upper ends of which overlap and are secured to the sides b b o f plate B, substantially asset forth.

2. A Wrought metal axle'box pedestal composed of a top plate B having bottom b and 95 Aparallel sides b b, separated depending ways or guides, the upper ends of which overlap and are secured to the sides b b of plate B, and having transverse 'brackets or bars H joining Ihesdes c cat their lower ends, substantially as set forth.

3. Awrought metal axle box pedestal composed of Ushaped top plate B having bolt opening g, U shaped Ways or guides C C with open upper ends secured to the sides of plate B, and having tranverse brackets or bars H, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL J. VAN STAVOREN.

Witnesses:

JOHN RODGERS, A. C. ALEXANDER. 

